Word_Counter

import string
words = {}
strip = string.whitespace + string.punctuation + string.digits + "\"'"
for line in open('shakespeare.txt'):
    for word in line.lower().split():
        word = word.strip(strip)
        if len(word) > 2:
            words[word] = words.get(word, 0) + 1
g = open('output.txt', 'w')
for word in sorted(words):
    g.write("'{0}' - {1} \n".format(word, words[word]))
g.close()